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Bassist, vocalist and co-song writer for THE SILVERS! What have we done?
1) NEW HIT SINGLE (2 songs)
2) FREE What are You Christmas?
3) After The Laugher (14 songs including 2 above)
4) End of Summer EP (6 songs)
5) FREE Sing Another Christmas Song
6) PLAY! (14 songs)
7) Another summer EP (7 songs including re-recording of Running Away)
8) FREE Silvers Bells (4 Christmas songs)
9) Soul surrender (14 songs to be released May 2018)

And don't forget the animated videos of some of these songs!

• Is that Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton Playing the Guitar?

  By The Silvers on January 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  What’s this? Mark dug this out of his archives. It is a photo of me playing someone’s (probably Jon’s) Gibson Les Paul. We may have been working on an original tune, OR I was trying to figure out the chords… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter’s Mark Zaputil Onstage at the Cavern Club – 1975

  By The Silvers on January 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Remember the club I mentioned that was underneath a parking lot? This is it. The Cavern was made to look like the inside of a cave, and, as I have mentioned before, it is where we met up again with… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter – “Sailing On Fantasies” – Lyrics to “Sunny Day”

  By The Silvers on January 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This is another of my favorite songs on “Sailing On Fantasies”. Jon came to our song-writing session with most of the tune in his notebook, and we quickly hammered out the rest of the lyrics and worked on the arrangement… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter 1974-75

  By The Silvers on January 29, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  This photo was “borrowed” from Steve Elliott’s Facebook page. Here’s what he says about it: “A picture from the vast gallery of Silver Laughter photos. A promo picture taken back when Kim only have [sic] one leg to drum with…. Read More ›

• Mark of Silver Laughter Onstage

  By The Silvers on January 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Here is Mark Zaputil up close and personal at one of our venues. He is playing one of his guitars, the red Gibson SG. Mick Orton

• 1975 Photo of Silver Laughter Onstage in… Don’t Know!

  By The Silvers on January 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In the continuing stream of pictures sent to me by our old guitar player, Mark Zaputil, here is a great one of us onstage somewhere in 1975. He doesn’t remember where it was, and neither do I. It’s a little… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton Rehearsing

  By The Silvers on January 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Talk about losing brain cells! I have no recollection of this photo, where it was taken or when. Mark forwarded this one to me along with several others which I will be posting later. Here is the little electric piano… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter’s Mark Zaputil Onstage

  By The Silvers on January 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This photo had to be taken at my first job with Silver Laughter. As I recall, Hastings, NE was my initial performance. It was cold, I remember that! We had to put together several sets of cover songs to get… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter’s Steve Elliott Unearths This Gem!

  By The Silvers on January 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I love seeing all these old photos of the band. This is another one I lifted from Steve Elliott’s Facebook page. He also makes some funny comments to go with each photo. Here is what the lineup looked like when… Read More ›

• Random Photo of Silver Laughter’s Paul Staack and Mick Orton Rehearsing

  By The Silvers on January 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  While we are in the time machine, here I am jumping back to the early ’70’s. I had forgotten this little gem which came from Craig Hute’s collection. It is of The Contents Are: (or Tabernash as we were later… Read More ›